Cerebras
the fastest inference hardware built, attached to a pricing page that wouldn't tell us what anything costs.
the technology is genuinely in a class of its own and the subscription tiers are good value — but we could not verify a single per-token rate, and that costs it eight places.
the wafer-scale hardware is not marketing: independent leaderboards have put cerebras far ahead of gpu-based inference on large models, and no competitor here claims comparable throughput. if generation speed is the product constraint, this is the shortlist.
what we could verify is thin. $5 of free credits, a $10 self-serve minimum, and two subscription plans — code pro at $50/month for up to 24 million tokens a day, code max at $200/month for up to 120 million. those are strong allowances if your usage fits the daily cap shape.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- llm inference providers
- pricing
- unpublished
- website
- cerebras.ai
the technology is genuinely in a class of its own and the subscription tiers are good value — but we could not verify a single per-token rate, and that costs it eight places.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.